WITH FRIENDS LIKE THIS...

Some say the US is supportive of Israel. At least one Christian relative of mine actually actively supports Biden financially thinking he actively supports Israel and looks the other way at his intense support for abortion, sexual perversion, transgenderism, censorship, raciality, and amazingly targeted use of the IRS and FBI against Christians and anyone he considers to be a political enemy.

The GOP has been a mixed bag and largely is incompetent in fighting misleading and evil narratives and standing for what they believe. They are too often silent even when their presumed candidate is the victim of four lawsuits with allegedly more in the wings to take him down while ignoring the fact the evidence that the current president is on the payroll of the CCP and likely others as well through his proxy son Hunter.  This rank political move is unprecedented in American history. The corrupt Merrick Garland (thank God he never was confirmed to the Supreme Court) is a partisan player with no concept of actual justice, 

China is preparing to take out our ally Taiwan, and based upon Biden's incredible weakness, exacerbated by his poor treatment of Afghanistan and Israel, I doubt anyone expects Biden to stand with Taiwan either.   The GOP has been given so much ammunition but has unfortunately used it to shoot themselves in the foot time and again. I am an independent and not bound to either party, and would love to see a new party that would actually have the guts to stand for truth come-what-may.

Now to Israel - As you know, the UN, which is composed of 85% dictatorship nations has condemned Israel more than other countries combined despite unparalleled restraint and outright hate that the administration likes to blame others for.    LINK -  ISRAEL CONDEMNED

The Dems have a huge number of anti-Semitic people, not only in the White House but in their political strongholds such as Harvard and the media. The presence of Chuck Schumer helped moderate Biden's long history of not understanding the Middle East (he wanted to divide Iraq into four countries) but it has been both sides against the middle for some time now though Biden has long given up any and all conservative roots to go along with his base.  Biden USED to be Pro-Life eons ago. BIDEN PRO-LIFE HISTORY

Biden cursed Netanyahu behind his back and undermined him, wanted new elections to get him out, gave huge sums of money to his enemies, refused to stand with Israel at the UN which Hamas celebrated, and amazingly, KNOWING that the Hamas attack in October was facilitated and orchestrated by Iran, actually told Iran it was fine with us for them to AGAIN attack our ally. With a "friend" like that, who needs enemies?  LINK -  BIDEN GAVE IRAN GREEN LIGHT

This use of missiles against this recent act of war has reduced Israel's ability to defend itself in the future, likely playing into Biden's hand to make them even more dependent on us so he can continue his triangulation and treachery.  Biden seems clueless as usual that Hezbollah is in the same league as Hamas, and Iran is working havoc there as well, and Israel's action there was 100% justified.          LINK - HEZBOLLAH

 

He has now said he will tie arms from us to having him dictate terms to them which undermines Israel's sovereignty.  EVERYONE knows Netanyahu cares more about Israel than Biden ever has.  Interestingly, Biden did no such thing with Ukraine (that I know of anyway), a country that  has certainly taken steps that could broaden that war on that front while the money given to them dwarfs that given to Israel.

 

His talk about civilian casualties ignores history where there were more civilian casualties in WW2 than military ones, including Dresden, Hiroshima, etc. LINK - CIVILIAN CASUALTIES.  In the case of Israel, the distinction between civilian casualties and military ones in Gaza is tenuous at best, as many "civilians" were military assets and not bystanders, and the faux casualty figures issued by Hamas have little if any credibility as they have a political aim AND they facilitated the deaths of many of their own "civilians".  Hamas was overwhelmingly elected by the Gazans with no outcries of voter fraud. 

 

Biden is trying to force a "two-state solution".  LINK - TWO STATES?   Israel lived with a de facto THREE-state-solution, but has been endlessly attacked.  Her enemies do NOT want two states, but ONE - theirs with Israel pushed into the sea to be annihilated. To negotiate, both sides have to be fair and with good intent.  That is true in business but was not true in Yalta.  Israel has to be in a position to dictate terms of peace, as there is zero basis for negotiation.  Bill Clinton gave away the store, so to speak, but Arafat STILL rejected it. The time for fruitless negotiations is long gone, and we should simply have given Israel the green light to do whatever was needed for peace.

 

I remember President Reagan saying, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall."  A true friend of Israel would have outright condemned Hamas on an ongoing basis rather than also condemning Israel's response as though they were equivalencies. Although we do not have a mutual defense treaty with Israel, our history has indicated an informal but ironclad commitment as though one were in place. A true friend of Israel would have told Iran that he considered any more attacks on Israel as an attack on the United States and furthermore, the US would aggressively enforce all nuclear restrictions on Iran rather than naively look the other way. Anything short of that is a milquetoast response which history has taught us only leads to more trauma and bloodshed. It happened in ancient Israel when the people thought they could live with enemies whom God wanted destroyed, it happened at Yalta, and it is happening again with by far the most evil administration in my lifetime. 

WILL WE BECOME SLAVES?

China has enslaved over a million.

There is a stunning number of Chinese who have entered our nation illegally.

China's Navy is putting outs to shame.

They laugh at the pathetically weak American President who gladly takes their money and who facilitated the wars in Ukraine and Israel.  They know Biden gave the green light to Russia to go into Ukraine. They also know he gave money to Hamas and unfroze assets to Iran.  

What aggressor nation would NOT move before America turns back from the utterly foolish and unwise policies of the current administration?

Let us pray for mercy and for God to intervene.

Know this - America fully deserves to be enslaved because of its sin and unrighteousness and its glorification of evil.

Wile there is a faithful remnant, it appears to be shrinking and those who are running to the left at our universities and cities are basically paving the way for an unspeakable future.

Pray I am wrong.  I would hate to be right...

FRENCH FLIES

Did you see that vote in France where the majority of voters want to limit air travel to four flights per lifetime?  All in the name of the environment.

Do any of them realize how many flights EVERY SINGLE MONTH environmental activists who say the sky is falling take? And many of those are not NY to Boston - they are over oceans!

Hypocrisy is on full display. Air travel is a huge blessing to those who need it, and these drive-by folks are clueless.  90% empty trains and buses are all around in non-rush hours, but provide a lifeline to those who do not have a car and need to get somewhere.  I never hear any of the greens EVER talk about that or the environmental impact of those transportation modes.  

It seems far more about CONTROL and AGENDAS than actual facts. For everyone who is not in a city like New York where cars can be a nuisance, for all to have a good old I.C.E. (internal combustion engine) car that can be bought for $25,000 or used for less is really very energy efficient and gives ultimate freedom to go wherever you want whenever you want with no one tracking you or controlling you.  Has anyone besides me really thought about the implications of self-driving vehicles? Power-hungry people will be able to decide when you travel, where you travel, and IF you travel.  If going to a Bible-believing church, they can redirect your vehicle to a pagan government-approved "church" that is more like Sodom than the Body of Christ.

God has given us an abundance of fossil fuels that will last many decades. It is good to explore options and develop them at a natural rate of speed.  The rush to electric vehicles which price all but the wealthy out of the market accompanied with laws to actually outlaw comparatively economical I.C.E. vehicles is yet another move to harm the middle class and make life more difficult for them.

People need to be informed and to think. Over 1,000 credentialed scientists from over 25 countries have risked much by publicly declaring there is NO climate emergency. If there were, the UN and other globalist groups would have condemned China for building more dirty coal plants (not clean like ours) than the US and Europe combined.  

The goal is one-world government to tear down the successful and to rule the world with a grossly immoral, anti-Semitic, anti-Christian, anti-common sense nightmare scenario that coincides precisely with the Apostle John's apocalypse in the Book of Revelation.   That is not heaven or even a poor imitation of a utopia on earth, but hell on earth. Even so come, Lord Jesus.

LAST THOUGHTS FROM STEVE JOBS

Steve Jobs... He died a billionaire at the age of 56. And his last words make us think about the meaning of life...

- After all, wealth is just a life experience I've had the opportunity to know. At this moment, as I lay sick in bed reminiscing my entire life, I realize that all the recognition and wealth I achieved are insignificant and lack higher meaning in the face of impending death...

So,

take my advice and be courteous and considerate of others. As we get older, we become smarter and we gradually realize that a $30 watch and a $300 watch show the same time...

Whether we wear $30 or $300 purses, the same amount of money can fit in both..

Whether we drive a $150,000 car or a $30,000 car, the journey and the distance are the same, we always reach the same destination.

I heard Steve Jobs' biography on audio book and his life was truly amazing.  I use the products he dreamed of and caused to be created every single day. There are excellent in every way. The Bible says that it is not good if a man gain the whole world but lose his own soul. I do not know if Steve ever humbled himself and gave his life to the Lord in his dying days, but the words above certainly indicate a time of reevaluation.

I urge you to evaluate or reevaluate those values you have held to and realize that only what is done for Christ will last.

TYRANNY ABOUNDS

WHEN PEOPLE WANT TO FORCE YOU TO ACCEPT WHAT THEY THINK AS ABSOLUTE FACT, YOU ARE EXPERIENCING TYRANNY UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL.

One principle I learned many decades ago was to NEVER make wide-ranging decisions based upon unproven hypotheses.  It seems that principle is not comprehended by most in government or academia these days. They seek to impoverish nations based upon totally unproven hypotheses on anthropomorphic climate change - it other words a rejection of the sovereignty of God and a belief that what man does can influence the climate.  Computer model after computer model has crashed and burned - yet they claim to know what will happen 30 years from now - they are simply counting on the fact that people will forget about it by then!

From trying to ban gas stoves, to making people buy absurdly expensive heat pump water heaters, to trying to ban internal combustion engine vehicles, the folly is all around us. There has been no significant increase in electric infrastructure, and many of those use abundant fossil fuels. Those who show that CO2 is less now than in some other periods, or who state the fact that CO2 levels in submarines are 20 times that in the air we breathe or who question the entire hypothesis that CO2 is a actually bad when it is the source of the sustenance of life on earth are censored and silenced.  Politicians who would fail any science course I took talk wind and solar without understanding that those are no panacea.  Ask Germany which wildly miscalculated.

The young have flocked to believing in socialism - read the article on that down just a little bit in this blog. Critical thinking is out the window while "A" grades are not the rule rather than the exception that used to be given only for truly excellent work.

Medical students are reciting woke racist oaths instead of the Hippocratic one - and not just in Minnesota. People who believe the obvious that we are created are mocked and woeful and absurd atheistic evolutionary constructs are inserted in their place.  In Michigan, therapists are MANDATED to follow lying woke garbage on transgenderism, even though BINARY GENDER is stamped like a serial number on the cells of the human body.

FREEDOM allows people to think and come to rational conclusions.  TYRANNY is by debased persons who demand you accept everything they say and to STOP THINKING.

You hear it from politicians, you hear it from academia, you even hear it in some churches. STAND UP, and do not submit yourself to a yoke of bondage.  Freedom came at a high price. It will take perhaps an even higher price to maintain it.

LOVE THY NEIGHBOR

 SO MANY PEOPLE  do not really know their neighbors - perhaps by sight, with a wave, or "How about this weather?" Yet Jesus commanded us to love our neighbors as ourselves.  What does that entail?  Check out my video message on Mark 12:29-31 to find out how we can better love God first, and then our neighbors.  Just go to shalomag.com, scroll down until you see the small box with Facebook written in it on the left side, and tap it.  The messages you see are latest first - scroll down to July 30, 2023.  Your comments are welcome!  God bless.

SOCIALISM IS HORRIFIC FOR THE ENVIRONMENT

Sharing this excellent article...  Government is needful for a few tasks, but when career politicians without a stake and often without ANY real world experience want to control everything, and everyone, it ends badly. Tyranny destroys people, money, societies, and yes, the environment.

Why Socialism Is Bad for Nature, the Environment

06.07.23

         John Stossel

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          Daily Signal

“Greed of the fossil fuel industry” is “destroying our planet,” says Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. Young people agree. Their solution? Socialism. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., says socialism creates “an environment that provides for all people, not just the privileged few.”

“Nonsense,” says Tom Palmer of the Atlas Network in my new video.

Palmer, unlike Ocasio-Cortez and most of us, spent lots of time in socialist countries. He once smuggled books into the Soviet Union.

What he’s seen convinces him that environmental-movement socialists are wrong about what’s “green.”

“We tried socialism,” says Palmer. “We ran the experiment. It was a catastrophe. Worst environmental record on the planet.”

In China, when socialist leaders noticed that sparrows ate valuable grain, they encouraged people to kill sparrows. “Billions of birds were killed,” says Palmer.

Government officials shot birds. People without guns banged pans and blew horns, scaring sparrows into staying aloft for longer than they could tolerate.

“These poor, exhausted birds fell from the skies,” says Palmer. “It was insanity.”

I pointed out that, watching video of people killing sparrows, it looked like they were happy to do it. “If you failed to show enthusiasm for the socialist goals of the party,” Palmer responds, “you were going to be in trouble.”

The Communist Party’s campaign succeeded. They killed nearly every sparrow.

But “all it takes is two minutes of thinking to figure, ‘Wait. Who’s going to eat all the bugs?’” says Palmer.

Without sparrows, insects multiplied. Bugs destroyed more crops than the sparrows had.

“People starved as a consequence,” says Palmer. “People confuse socialism with … a ‘nice government’ or a ‘government that’s sweet’ or ‘made up of my friends.’”

Socialism means central planning. That ends badly.

“What AOC wants to do is basically give the Pentagon, or similar agencies, control over the entire society. She thinks that’s going to turn out well,” says Palmer. “It’s a joke.”

China’s central planners keep making mistakes. Many Chinese lakes and rivers are bright green. Fertilizer runoff created algae blooms that kill all fish. A Lancet study says Chinese air pollution kills a million people per year.

Wherever socialism is tried, it creates nasty pollution.

In the Soviet Union, Josef Stalin wanted cotton for his army. His central planners decided it should be grown near the Aral Sea. They drained so much water that the sea, once the fourth-biggest inland lake in the world, shrank to less than half its size.

“Soviet planners caused catastrophic environmental costs to the whole population,” says Palmer.

I push back. “That was then. Now the rules would be different. Now the rule would be: ‘green.’”

“All the time we hear socialists say, ‘Next time, we’ll get it right.’ How many next times do you get?” asks Palmer.

Yet American media still sometimes say socialists protect the environment. A New York Times op-ed claims “Lenin’s eco-warriors” created “the world’s largest system of most protected nature reserves.”

“These are not nature preserves,” Palmer responds. “They use it as a dumping ground for heavy metals, for radioactive waste. In what sense is it a nature preserve?”

Capitalists destroy nature, too. Free societies do need government rules to protect the environment. But free markets with property rights often protect nature better than bureaucrats can.

Private farmers, explains Palmer, are “concerned about the ability of the farm to grow food next year, year after year, [even] after that farmer is gone. Why? Because the farm has a capital value. That’s the ‘capital’ in capitalism. They want to maximize that.”

Capitalism also protects the environment because it creates wealth. When people aren’t worried about starving or freezing, they get interested in protecting nature. That’s why capitalist countries have cleaner air.

Also, capitalists can afford to pay for wild animal preserves. “When no one has property rights and people are poor, tigers and elephants are considered a burden … . They kill them,” says Palmer. “When you’re wealthier … you care about the environment.”

Socialists say they care, but the real world shows that to protect the environment, capitalism works better.

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